INDEX 
455 
41 ; their treatment of pack-animals, 
135 ; as interpreters, 272 ; their 
purchases, 275 ; effect on markets, 
312 ; their methods, 342 
Swahili porters, 6, 7 ; engagement of, 6, 
134; author’s number in caravan, 6, 
29, I 34> 135; loss of, 116, 130; 
author’s signal for, 160, 287 ; food on 
march, 269; conduct, 326 ; their 
point of honour, 365 ; Government 
regulation of loads, 366; chief reward, 
366 ; treatment of, 367 ; punishment, 
367 ; redress of grievances, 368 ; 
mode of carrying tusks, 370, 432 ; 
payment, 433 
Swahilis, 26, 51, 75 ; food prejudice, 
39, 105, 300 ; as servants, 89 ; their 
tooth-brushes, 280 
Swaziland, wild pigs in, 118 
Taita, 9 
Tana River, 131, 145 ; tributaries, 13, 
81, 160 ; camp at, 146 ; ferrying with 
canoe, 153 ; crossing pack-animals, 
157 
Taro desert, 139 
Teal, 266 
“Telekeza” (water-carrying in gourds), 
139 
Teleki, Count, 8, 269, 275, 280, 307, 
339 ; his volcano, 259 
Terns, 266 
Tetse fly, 8, 28, 142, 145, 160, 161, 
162, 163; female (?), 282 
Thaka district, 132 
Thana River (see Tana River) 
Thomas, Mr. Oldfield, 303, 412 ; note 
on Gazella grantii , 238 
Thomson’s gazelle, 9, 10, 11 ; northern 
limit of range, 241 
Tick-birds, 19, 34, 292 
Tongas, 16 
Topi hartebeeste ( Damaliscus jimela), 
274, 280, 289, 304, 314, 3 i8 > 332, 
418; resemblance, 274, 290; varieties, 
274 note; breeding-time, 334, 335 ; 
fighting, 335 
“Tora” antelope, 303 
Tree-frogs, 236 
Tsavo River, 138, 141 
Turkana, 341 
Tusks, weights of bull, 56, 61, 98, no, 
113, 132, 197, 209, 229, 299, 321, 
356, 422 ; weights of cow, 47, 209, 
224, 422 ; distinctive character, 198 ; 
finding in forests, 247 ; proportions, 
298, 362 ; porters’ mode of carrying, 
370; Sir Edmund Loder’s specimen, 
422 note; Duke of York’s specimen, 
422 note 
Ukambani, Northern, 8, 10, 132, 143; 
description, 143 ; female customs in, 
145 
Umbuluzi River, 49 
Vultures, 21, 72, 221, 241, 282, 346, 
356, 364 ; author’s mode of protecting' 
game from, 23, 211, 241, 379 
Vulturine guinea-fowl, 176, 184, 197, 
290; chased by dog, 142; appear¬ 
ance, 143 
Wakamba tribe, 25, 150, 160, 430; 
ivory traders, 48, 143, 161; as hunters, 
92, 253 ; mode of carrying burdens, 
144; as bee-keepers, 144; their 
festival, 144; female customs, 144; 
predatory tendencies, 431 
Wakanda tribe, use for mineral, 83 
Wakwavi tribe, branch of the Masai, 
128, 246 ; customs, 129 ; hostility 
shown by, 130 ; present location, 246 ; 
as interpreters, 291 
Waller’s gazelle, 16, 26, 81, 141, 156, 
186, 195, 280, 284; haunts, 20; 
chai'acteristic attitudes, 81 ; appear¬ 
ance and disposition, 184 
Wa-ndorobo, Swahili plural, 13 note 
Warr River, northern affluent of Lake 
Rudolph, 291 
Wart-hogs, 27, 146 
Wasanya tribe, 431 ; hunting weapons, 
431 
Waterbuck, 12, 26, 81, 141, 148, 151, 
156, 161 ; distinctive odour, 147 ; 
defassus variety, 285 
Water-hens, 64, 202 
Weaver birds, 37 
Wild-fowl, 64 
Winton, Mr. W. E. de, 372 ; remarks 
on existing forms of giraffe, 412 
Yams, 12, 126 
Zanzibaris, 367 
Zebra (see Burchell’s, Chapman’s, Grant’s, 
and Grevy’s zebra) 
Zoo, giraffes resting in, 117 ; elephant 
in, 424 
Zululand, author’s appointment in, 3 ; 
“ roi rhebok ” in, 124 
